I wondering if there was any actionable intellegence associated with that message.

We know that there were bits and pieces known about what was about to happen in the hands of various government agencies and we know that the previous administation (specifically Jamie Gorelick) had built a wall so that these agencies couldn't share information. This is the problem that the Dept of Homeland Security was supposed to solve.

Given all that, what do you think the Bush administration should have done with the knowledge that some Islamists were determined to strike inside the United States?

"The group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic terrorists." Mr. Hicks himself said he spoke to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at 2 a.m. Benghazi time the day after the attack and told her it was a planned attack, not a street protest.

Still, the administration stuck to its story and sent out Susan Rice—the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., someone with no direct connection to the event—to go on the Sunday talk shows and insist it was all about a video.

From the day of the attack until this week, the White House spin was too clever by half. In the weeks and months after the attack White House spokesmen said they were investigating the story, an internal review was under way. When the story blew open again, last week, they said it was too far in the past: "Benghazi happened a long time ago." Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, really said that.

Think of that. They can't give answers when the story's fresh because it just happened, they're looking into it. Eight months later they don't have anything to say because it all happened so long ago.

Think of how low your opinion of the American people has to be to think you can get away, forever, with that.

"The group that conducted the attacks, Ansar al-Sharia, is affiliated with Islamic terrorists." Mr. Hicks himself said he spoke to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at 2 a.m. Benghazi time the day after the attack and told her it was a planned attack, not a street protest.

Still, the administration stuck to its story and sent out Susan Rice—the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., someone with no direct connection to the event—to go on the Sunday talk shows and insist it was all about a video.

From the day of the attack until this week, the White House spin was too clever by half. In the weeks and months after the attack White House spokesmen said they were investigating the story, an internal review was under way. When the story blew open again, last week, they said it was too far in the past: "Benghazi happened a long time ago." Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, really said that.

Think of that. They can't give answers when the story's fresh because it just happened, they're looking into it. Eight months later they don't have anything to say because it all happened so long ago.

Think of how low your opinion of the American people has to be to think you can get away, forever, with that.

I wondering if there was any actionable intellegence associated with that message.

We know that there were bits and pieces known about what was about to happen in the hands of various government agencies and we know that the previous administation (specifically Jamie Gorelick) had built a wall so that these agencies couldn't share information. This is the problem that the Dept of Homeland Security was supposed to solve.

Given all that, what do you think the Bush administration should have done with the knowledge that some Islamists were determined to strike inside the United States?

Remember the lengthy, exhausting Repubican investigation into the facts surrounding the Bush administration failure to prevent the 9/11?

No?

That's because there weren't any.

Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism chief under President Bush repeatedly warned the administration about al Qaeda’s determination to attack the U.S. Clark wrote emphatic emails to the Bush administration of the al Qaeda threat throughout 2001:

The fact that Obama/Clinton had no interest in saving the lives of Americans that THEY put in harms way, then lied to the American people in a campaign/adminstration-wide effort, means nothing in the face of the Jody Arias verdict or a basketball player announcing to the world what he does in the privacy of his own home.

So far there have been 9 HoR hearings and two review boards just on Benghazi alone.

And the neo-cons aren't yet done fishing.

During the Bush administration there were 54 attacks on US diplomatic missions around the world resulting in the deaths of 13 Americans and there were only 3 hearings, in total, by the HoR on embassy security.

Or are you saying that they were just incompetent and didn't care how many foreign service people died in the line of duty? They just buried their heads in the sand and kept doing the same thing over and over regardless of how many lives lost.

THAT is a disgrace.

Im saying if, they were told there was a serious threat and they would have done nothing then that would have been negligent but, apparently that never happened.

or

If they would have said it wasnt a terror attack after the poeple on the ground and the CIA said it was then that would have been unacceptable but, apparently that didnt happen either.

If either of those things happened with Benghazi the highest ranking official that knew or ordered it should be held accountible.

Jay Carney tried desperately today to make a silk purse out of a sows ear! He failed miserably! The "Fast and Furious" like gun smuggling to Syria via Turkey orchestrated by the CIA and facilitated in the embassy in Libya will ooze out sooner now because Carney threw the CIA under the bus! It's going to get nasty in the next couple of weeks and since even the AP is jumping on the band wagon, even the Globe may pick the story up!

Next up is a comical interlude as John Kerry testifys about what he knew!

bigdog where is the coverup ..... there is no new information that came out of these hearings ....

Sis, you`re too smart to act dumb.

FIVE Sunday shows.........."it`s the video". Hillary........."it`s the video". Obama........."it`s the video". Jay Carney........."it`s the video". All the while, they ALL KNEW 15 minutes after the attack, it was al Qaeda!!!

The the details in the emails and those memos changes were brought to attention to the House and Senate Intellegence Committees in March .... I think any member of those committees of either party would have said something then about a cover-up

Sen Bob Cocker (R) Tenn the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations has stated that he has seen all emails and films concerning Benghazi Attacks has stated that he is satified with the Administration accounts of the events that led to attacks .